Hey, anyone who has periods...TMI ahead, but it's a fantasy toy forum...anyway! I'm wondering if lingering side effects of birth control use are possible. This is long, sorry.
I was on the NuvaRing for 9 months last year, starting in October 2016 and ended in June 2017. My period came back, but markedly different from how it has been for the last 21, nearly 22 years.
This is what I -used- to have: 2-3 days before I started, I'd get extremely mild, very intermittent cramps (what I called my 'early warning system'). When I did start, my number one indicator was and still is that my boobs stopped hurting - I have fibrocystic ones, so they hurt 90% of the time - then I would either start mild cramping, then flow or flow, then mild cramping. That would slowly ramp up over several hours, from a 3 to a 9/10 pain-wise, then level off after that to low-level cramping (3-4) and heavy flow but still within normal parameters. 3 to 4 days after this, my flow ceases for half a day, with a change in colour from 1st-2nd day bright red to light brown....then, after several hours of nothing, bright red blood again, accompanied by cramps that feel very sharp and burning, as opposed to heavy and crushing/knife-twisting on the first day.
NOW what I have been experiencing since September 2017 is this: Number one indicator - lack of boob pain - arrives, then a few hours later, mild, regular cramping which makes me think that I started my period. This continues for several days and there's no indication of any flow for several days -yesterday is the 6th month that this has been occurring - When I finally DO start my flow, the cramps hit fast and the pain quickly rises to a debilitating degree for several hours.
The experience of 3rd or 4th day cramps is the same as before.
Anyone have this experience in general or after taking BC?
Thank you for reading!
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